The third and final day of the Flash Memory Summit was as busy as the previous two. Most conferences fizzle out the last day; FMS day 3 was still abuzz with interesting sessions and quality briefings. Briefing 1 – Fibre…
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Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 3 Wrap Up
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Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 2 Wrap Up
The second day of Flash Memory Summit (FMS) was another busy one for Storage Switzerland, including presenting with Jay Kramer, an FMS founder and CEO of Network Storage Advisors. (Briefing 1 and 2 are available in our post “Flash Memory…
Flash Memory Summit 2019 Day 2 – Western Digital
Our second day at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2019 was another jam-packed day. Western Digital’s activities before and at the event are so extensive that we’ve broken them out into a full detailed briefing note on their IntelliFlash products and…
Tagged with: AI, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SDS, SSD, Western Digital
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How to Manage All Your Flash Options
Today’s data center storage infrastructure has to support an unprecedented number of workloads, ranging from virtualized workloads to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Each of these workloads can benefit from all-flash storage systems and it seems like there is a…
Lightboard Video: The State of the File System Market
“Software-defined” is all the buzz, driven by the opportunity to cut costs and avoid vendor lock-in without impacting performance. The problem is that few file system vendors are able to truly deliver on this value proposition. In the following Lightboard…
Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 1
Storage Switzerland is at the 2019 edition of the Flash Memory Summit (FMS). Each day of the summit, we will be providing a quick summary of our meetings. Day 1 was a busy day for StorageSwiss as we raced from…
Tagged with: AI, DRAM, Flash, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, HPC, NVMe, Pavilion Data, SAS, SATA
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For All-Flash Performance, Hardware vs. Media
In recent years the industry has seen the evolution of flash media from Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based interconnects to Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) based interconnects. And now, PCIe interconnect is standardized around…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, ROI, SAS, Violin Systems
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SlideShare: Is Computational Storage a Better Path to Extreme Performance?
Vendors are re-writing software and adding custom hardware in an attempt to not bottleneck extremely low latency NVMe Flash and Storage Class Memory technologies. Eventually, they all are at the mercy of physics. Data has to traverse an internal and…
Tagged with: Computational Storage, Flash, flash memory summit, NGD Systems, NVMe, Samsung, ScaleFlux
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You Need a Multi-Flash Storage Strategy
The two big trends in flash technology are Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) flash and QLC (quad-level cell) but they are at opposite ends of the spectrum from a use case perspective. NVMe flash is designed for extremely high performance and…
How to Get Your Application Ready for Computational Storage Architecture
At its most basic, computational storage involves putting processing power where the data resides. In the case of flash storage, a computational storage vendor installs processing power on the flash drive. Imagine an array full of 100 flash drives; now…
Tagged with: Analytics, Computational Storage, Flash, flash memory summit, NGD Systems, NVMe, Samsung, Scale, ScaleFlux
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